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Distress

of the landlord's title or interest, and also during the possession of the tenant. By the Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, s. 1, distresses for the recovery of any rent may be made at any time within twelve … the right to make them shall have first accrued; but (by s. 42 of the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27) no arrears of rent can be recovered by distress but

Fraud

such fraud was r might with reasonable diligence have been first known or discovered; see (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), s. 26; Vane v. Vane, (1873) LR 8 Ch 383;

Joint-tenancy

moiety of the whole, and not the whole of an undivided moiety, though since the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), s. 12, the possession of one joint-tenant is no longer

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Deed

the grantor. 3. The operative words of transfer. 4. The name of the grantee, with appropriate words of limitation (if any). See s. 56 of (English) Law of Property Act, 1925. (d) The Parcels, i.e., the description

Entry

disabilities, provided it be not more than thirty (formerly forty) years in the whole. See (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 57), repealing and replacing s. 2 of the Real Property Limitation Act, … Limitation Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 57), repealing and replacing s. 2 of the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27). All writs of entry and real actions by which lands

Fee-simple

The (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881, s. 51, provided that in a deed it should be sufficient in the limitation of an estate in fee-simple to use the words 'in fee-simple' without the word 'heirs,' but this s.

Annuity

or leasehold both, exclusively of purely personal estate, it is strictly a rent charge; see (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27), s. 21, and RENT CHARGE. But if the annual sum

Bill of Exchange

CHEQUE; NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS; PROMISSORY NOTES PROTEST; NOTE A BILL, TO; INCHOATE. Includes a hundi and a cheque. [The Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963), s. 2 (c)] Means a bill of exchange as defined by the Negotiable Instruments … England, Vol. 4(1), 4th Edn., Para 307, p. 155. Bill of exchange, includes a hundi or a cheque, Limitation Act, 1963, sec. 2(c).

Prescription

depriving all claimants of every stale right and deferred litigation, now mainly governed by the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833, (3 & 4 Wm 4, c. 27); as amended by the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874 … Property Limitation Act, 1833, (3 & 4 Wm 4, c. 27); as amended by the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 57); and (2) positive, which relates to incorporeal here-ditaments, and originated at

Contingent remainder

them, it vests in them as a vested remainder for the life of A. On this ground, the limitation (usual in old settlements) to trustees 'for preserving contingent remainders' was held to confer on then a vested … estate, Fearne, Cont. Remainders. The legal estate in contingent remainders has been abolished by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 1. S. 4, whoever, provides that they can take effect as equitable interests, and any instrument

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